Google Gearing Up For Open-source Smartphone Hardware Platform – GOOGL

The Wall Street Journal reports that Google (GOOGL) is working on an ambitious idea to create open hardware platform smartphones that consumers can easily customize by themselves. Known as Project Ara, these upgradeable smartphones would begin as simple metal skeletons, or ‘Endoskeletons’ as Google calls them, where small rectangular blocks, called modules, can be slotted […] View the full post at: Google Gearing Up For Open-source Smartphone Hardware Platform – GOOGL Related posts: Chrome: Google’s New Open Source Browser to Launch Tomorrow T-Mobile To Offer Google Smartphone Is Google In Talks to Acquire Twitter ; Two Prominent Blogs Clash Over Source Reliability